Chapter 632: Righteousness and Ego

From a bird's-eye view of Songjiang Mansion City, you can see the green bricks and green tiles in the center of the city, and the new color is eye-washing, and outside this area that is close to the circle, the old color of the dust is in stark contrast to this new color, if it were not for the large and small ruins dotted in the round area, it would not be obvious that this is the old land that was razed by the explosion of the fire pharmacy four years ago.

In a ruined and broken house, barely surrounded by straw mats, Xu Maolin put down the burden, and his wife looked at the two bamboo frames in front and back of the burden, and said in surprise: "Why are Ince towels more sold today than Liuhe hats?" ”

Xu Maolin is a hatsmith, he makes hat tires, his wife embroiders hat noodles, and the two of them are working hard in this Songjiang Mansion City, and their lives are still good, and they are planning to repair the old house. The Ince scarf that his wife said was passed down with the Anglo-Chinese people in Longmen, which was actually the black gauze hat of the Ming Dynasty, but it did not have hard wings, and it was all square and round, and the shape was different.

This "Ince scarf" has a silk cloth or net scarf on the forehead and head, and the "Tateyama" on the back of the head is much shorter than in the Ming Dynasty. The British and Chinese people used it to hold their hair in a bun, and at the same time used it as a decoration, flowers, birds, insects and fish, colorful, extraordinarily exhibited, and it has also become fashionable in Jiangnan. For Jiangnan people, the greater significance is that they can not only cover their bald scoops, but also hide their small braids, so that they can look similar to the people in the south.

Xu Maolin said happily: "There are more people who love it, and the iron wire, silk cloth and net towel are cheaper, and there are more people who buy them." Even if a top is only sold for 50 wen, you can earn 20 wen. ”

The wife said worriedly: "I saw another hat shop on the street during the day, although the price is more expensive than ours, but the material and workmanship are not worse than ours, and it is also the lobby number from Guangzhou, can our business last long?" ”

Xu Maolin said: "Our small business, selling a dozen or so a day is enough for expenses." There are always people who are afraid of the store bullying customers, our Xu family's reputation is still there, and we can't squeeze out our business, it's ......"

Then he also had a worried face: "The tax difference has changed, and he wants to give me a horse, and he will charge me ten cents, and even those that are not sold will be counted." ”

The wife sighed, whether the business can go on is not in the lobby, but in the government. The city tax has to be paid, the centigold has to be paid, and a yamen can stretch out his hand.

"It's me who is not good, I always mention these bad things, let's eat, today I bought Nanyang rice, a liter is only seven yuan, which is two yuan cheaper than our Susong rice. I really don't understand, it's all the same field and the same planting method, and people's rice is not bad, and it is shipped from Nanyang all the way, why is it cheaper than ours? ”

His wife nagged Zhang Luo for dinner, and when it came to the price of rice, Xu Maolin also sighed.

"Why is it cheap? Because the things from the south enter our Jiangnan, the official does not dare to collect money! We have to pay for all the things produced by Su Song! Not to mention the old commercial taxes, the new centigold is set up everywhere. The rice produced in our hometown in the countryside has to go through two commercial customs and six customs to enter Huating County! If you can sell a liter of Wuwen, you can sell it in Huating County, and you can't get back to Jiuwen, so of course you don't want to. ”

"We can still buy nine dollars of Susong rice in Songjiang Fucheng, first, the official master does not dare to make the price of rice too fierce, and second, the rice of Longmen is used as a substitute, they rely on the name of Longmen rice merchants to collect rice in the countryside, put it into the rice bag in the south, and it becomes the rice in the south. The merchant customs can't collect cash, so that we Songjiang people can eat local rice. Although there is rice in Nanyang, it can't feed our entire Jiangnan.

Listening to her husband's words, the wife felt that she was insightful, and pulled her husband to the table with admiration, secretly thinking that she had to continue to work hard tonight, she was in her twenties, and she was not yet a queen, how could she be worthy of her deceased in-laws......

After thinking about it a lot, her mood dimmed again, and she said to her husband carelessly: "I went to the yamen to ask, Xiulin...... I didn't go to the south, I heard that I scolded the lord in the south when I was picking people, and I was beaten up, so that Jin Shanwei sent it back to the county prison. The body is fine, but it is getting more and more crazy, and when he sees me, he scolds. ”

Xu Maolin just took the bowl and pulled it, when he heard this, the bowl fell on the table, and the chopsticks slapped on the table even more: "It's really a magic barrier to reading!" He used to be a child, so he should be more reasonable than me! Who is to blame for the catastrophe four years ago? It's not that people pile up fire pills in the city, it's not that people come and light fire pills, if you want to blame God, he wants to die or live, and he always hates the people in the south for what!? ”…,

Xu Maolin's family was also a victim of the Songjiang explosion four years ago, and the dilapidated house survived the catastrophe. But his parents were martyred in the explosion along with thousands of Songjiang people.

His younger brother Xu Xiulin has always blamed Nanmian Yinghua for this incident, not only for his parents' hatred. He and his wife are in the cotton cloth business, and Songjiang cotton cloth has not been worried, but it is only worried about the lack of production. But after the weaving factory was built in Longmen, cheap and high-quality "machine cloth" swept through Songjiang Mansion, which also made his family's business plummet.

His wife also felt that she could take a step back and become a cloth substitute for Longmen on the one hand, and a cotton business on the other hand, to supply materials for Longmen weaving mills. Maybe the days will be better than before, but Xu Xiulin feels that he can't bow to the "Nanban". The husband and wife turned against each other for this, the wife simply kicked Xu Xiulin and set up her own door, Xu Xiulin gradually fell down, it was not for his brother Xu Maolin to stretch out his hand, it is estimated that it has become a street use.

Xu Xiulin's temperament changed greatly because of this, and he was thinking all day that he was broken by Nanban, and he joined the "Great Righteous Society", and did everything possible to make trouble with Nanmian in secret.

Last month, Xu Xiulin argued with people on the street, it is said that he was arguing with Songjiang Mansion City to blame for suffering, but he couldn't beat people to serious injuries, but he didn't expect that person to be the companion of Longmen Yinghua businessmen, the businessmen found the Jiangnan camp in Longmen, the Jiangnan camp found Songjiang Mansion, and Songjiang Mansion pressed to Huating County, Xu Xiulin was convicted of hurting people.

Now there is no exile in Jiangnan, they are all generalized years and months of imprisonment, Xu Xiulin has been set for five years, and it is impossible to survive in the county prison, so Xu Maolin is active in the county government, hoping to make him a prisoner and go to the south to work.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xiulin didn't appreciate it at all, which made the honest brother who was thinking about his younger brother finally angry.

"Leave him alone! Whether it's dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me! ”

Saying this, Xu Maolin was wondering if he should go to the meeting to find the priests and parishioners to see if they had any way.

"Xu Maolin? I heard that you have joined the Catholic Church!? ”

Just after eating, his wife was cleaning up in the stove room, and a group of people broke into the house, and the young man who looked like a scholar asked viciously.

"Your brother is still guarding the righteousness and is awe-inspiring, but you, the elder brother, have even forgotten the deep hatred of the sea of blood, and he is holding Nanban's big leg wholeheartedly, saying! How much silver did you receive from Nanban!? ”

Another young man roared, this person Xu Maolin recognized, He Feng, the son of the He family, a big silk merchant in the county, used to buy silk and satin materials from the He family, and He Feng and his younger brother were still classmates in the county school.

"My family moved from the Central Plains, and there has never been an ancestral shrine, and my parents passed away earlier, and there is nowhere to bury them, so I have to go to the Heavenly Temple. God will lead everyone to worship their ancestors together, which is not a taboo, right? ”

Seeing that this group of people looked like scholars, and they were all brightly dressed, Xu Maolin was frightened and hurriedly defended. He is indeed a member of the Lord's Church, and four years ago, after the peace between the north and the south, the heavenly temple also entered the south of the Yangtze River. The first thing was to help deal with the corpses of Songjiang Fucheng, which also reduced the fear of many Jiangnan people.

At least in terms of life and death, the Heavenly Temple is the same old style of the Chinese people, the only difference is that the family funeral sacrifice is changed to a public funeral public sacrifice. Moreover, the Jiangnan Yingci Yuan, headed by Ye Tianshi, was very strict in Jiangnan internal medicine and surgery, and did not do much disembowelment, which also made Jiangnan people gradually accustomed to the existence of Catholicism and Yingci Yuan, and many ordinary people also joined the church in order to save money for funerals.

But these two incidents are both rebellious in the eyes of Jiangnan scholars, although the government does not dare to embarrass them, scholars often provoke trouble, so Xu Maolin still feels that he is unreasonable in the face of these people

The young man who was still a little bookish gritted his teeth and scolded: "Taboo!? There are so many taboos you have committed that you don't have to be taboo at all! You actually sold your brother to Nanban to do hard labor, and you don't even have a taboo about conscience and shame! ”

That He Feng said: "Xiulin is a member of our Great Righteous Society!" What taboo do you say you have committed!? ”

It turned out that he came to seek "justice" for his brother? No, his brother, I'm afraid he was dragged into the water by these people......

Xu Maolin's anger gradually rose, and he replied unwillingly: "I didn't commit a taboo, I have my own government under my control, but you, why are you bewitching my brother and going against the people in the south?" ”…,

"Traitor!"

"Scum!"

"Shameless!"

The group of scholars were immediately indignant and scolded angrily.

He Feng said with a hideous face: "Why are you against the Nanban? Are you still human? The imperial court has fed this countryman, and everyone should be loyal to the imperial court! At present, the court is in difficulty, and it is temporarily to negotiate peace with the Nanban, but we might as well let our people serve the court! Get rid of you traitors who are treacherous and ungrateful and teach everyone to be righteous and loyal to the emperor, but all Qing people should ......"

Seeing the look of disdain on Xu Maolin's face, the young man in the lead stopped He Feng, "It seems that you have been bewitched by the crooked reasoning and heresy of the Southern Barbarians, and you feel that you are not a fool, and you are tired of this kind of sage avenue?" What I Lin Yuanfu hates most is people like you! But I, Lin Yuanfu, am also reasonable, and I want to convince you! ”

This Lin Yuanfu said in a deep voice: "Why don't you go against Nanban? Let's not talk about the king, let's talk about the people. You ask yourself, after Nanban opened the Dragon Gate, what is the hardship of our Jiangnan people's life? The Southern Barbarian merchants came in a surge, and the rice harmed the peasants, and their rice could no longer be sold at a high price. Silk cotton cloth has harmed the weavers, and the silk cotton cloth they weave can no longer be sold, so they can only supply raw silk cotton, which is exploited by the Nanban. Our Sugang was originally very famous, but Nanban's steel came in, and Sugang's steel yard was closed overnight! ”

He stared at Xu Maolin and sneered: "You should know very well what happened to your brother. Besides, you, the hatster, do you know that the hat shop in Nanban will not only be opened all over the south of the Yangtze River in the future, but at that time, a hat will only cost twenty or thirty yuan, depending on how you live! ”。 ）

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